Meaning of hold one's liquor | Babel Free

Definitions

To be resistant to intoxication or to show few signs of intoxication, even after consuming a significant amount of alcohol.

idiomatic

Equivalents

Examples

“Just because a person is descended from hard-drinking ancestors is no sign that he can "hold his liquor" better than others.”

“Sandy Marsh didn't hold her liquor particularly well; she could get tipsy on two glasses of red wine.”

“When I first came to London and fell in with Sebastian and Evangeline, neither could hold their liquor, nor judge which glass should be their last.”

CEFR level